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All authors to their own defects are blind.
JOHN DRYDENThey think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDENOld as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDENHappy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDENCourage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
JOHN DRYDENFreedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
JOHN DRYDENOur souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
JOHN DRYDENRepentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDENIll habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDENBetter to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENHonor is but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDENNo king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDENA good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDENWhen we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDENFew know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDENEvery language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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